Mumbai, June 21: A petition has been given by a group of eminent people to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a ban on all forms of employment of children under the age of 14.
‘Save the Children’, an NGO, which started a 45-day campaign against child labour, asked 45 prominent people from various walks of life to endorse a petition at the end of its campaign.
The petition sought for urgent amendments to the existing child labour law in the wake of the Right to Education Act, which provides for free and compulsory elementary education to all children of the age of 6-14 years.
—Agencies